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The Ship That Did Not Make It Out Unscathed A commercial vessel has been struck by an unknown projectile while sailing out of the Strait of Hormuz, damaging its engine room and resulting in what maritime authorities described as a crew casualty. The remaining crew were being assisted by the Omani Coast Guard as investigators tried to establish exactly what hit the ship and who was responsible. The...

Who Killed Tupac? Nearly 30 Years Later, America’s Most Notorious Hip-Hop Murder Reaches Trial Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was gunned down on a Las Vegas street, a jury is finally being asked to decide whether someone should be held criminally responsible for organising his killing. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, has pleaded not guilty to murder and is not accused of pulling the trigger. Prosec...

The Data France Failed To Protect France is confronting an extraordinary cybersecurity failure after attackers extracted tax, business and property information relating to 678,000 individuals and professionals from systems operated by the Direction Générale des Finances Publiques, the country's tax authority. The information includes some of the financial details citizens would normally expect...

Nvidia’s $105 Billion OpenAI Gamble Could Reshape The AI Arms Race Nvidia is putting its financial strength behind one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects of the artificial-intelligence era, agreeing to provide credit support that could reach $105 billion for a vast Ohio data-centre campus that will serve OpenAI. Nvidia will also invest $1.5 billion directly into developer SB Energy , wh...

The Iran Ceasefire Is Unravelling — And Hormuz Is Becoming the Battlefield Again Iran says it is moving to a “fully offensive” military posture after attempts to secure a lasting settlement with the United States stalled, marking one of Tehran’s clearest warnings yet that the next phase of the conflict may be fought on very different terms. The declaration comes as the Strait of Hormuz remains lar...

Hamas, Netanyahu and Trump’s Gaza Gamble: Why Kushner’s Meetings Matter Jared Kushner has met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem just a day after holding rare direct talks with Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya in Egypt, putting Donald Trump’s Gaza strategy through one of its most important tests yet. The diplomatic shuttle is designed to break a deadlock that increasingly comes dow...

Erbil Under Pressure After Drones Target Kurdistan Prime Minister Two explosive-laden drones have targeted the private office of Iraqi Kurdistan Prime Minister Masrour Barzani in an attack that pushes one of Iraq’s most politically sensitive regions deeper into the Middle East’s widening security crisis. A second drone targeted the residence of the head of the Kurdistan Region’s security and intel...

Instagram And YouTube Found Liable Over Addictive Design — What Happens Next Could Be Huge A California jury has done something the technology industry spent years arguing should not happen: it held the companies behind Instagram and YouTube legally responsible for aspects of how their platforms were designed. The damages were tiny by Silicon Valley standards. The precedent could be anything but....

AI Can Now Recreate The People We Have Lost — But Should It? For almost all of human history, death has imposed one absolute boundary. Memories can survive. Photographs can survive. Recordings can survive. But the conversation eventually stops. Artificial intelligence is beginning to blur that boundary. Systems already exist that can preserve a person's voice, memories and manner of speaking,...

Hundreds of Ukrainian Drones Descend on Russia in Massive Overnight Assault Ukraine has launched one of the largest aerial attacks inside Russia since the full-scale war began, sending hundreds of drones across Russian territory and placing Moscow itself under extraordinary pressure. Russian authorities said at least six people were killed as drones reached the Moscow region and struck towns in so...

The Universe Could Have a Hidden Self-Destruct Mechanism Imagine a black hole doing something even more disturbing than swallowing stars. Not destroying a planet. Not tearing apart a solar system. But helping trigger a fundamental change in the fabric of reality itself. Physicists have now carried out a new numerical investigation of that possibility. The work explores whether black holes could in...

27 Mysterious Cosmic Signals Discovered Inside the Milky Way Astronomers searching the radio sky have discovered 27 previously unknown transient sources inside our own galaxy. They appear, disappear and in some cases release isolated bursts separated by long stretches of silence, making them remarkably easy for conventional surveys to miss. The obvious question is irresistible: what is producing t...

Hundreds Mourn Jason Arday As Scrutiny Turns To Cambridge, The Media And His Final Days Hundreds of students, academics and supporters have gathered in Cambridge to remember Jason Arday, turning the centre of the university city into a place of mourning only days after one of British academia’s most bitter recent controversies. Students and staff gathered around Senate House and King’s Parade on S...

What Happens And What The Final Mystery Means. The Ninth Citizen is a near-future British murder mystery and psychological techno-thriller by James Taylor. The novel opens with former Detective Sergeant Mara Venn receiving a call from a phone belonging to her brother Daniel, despite Daniel having disappeared years earlier and eventually becoming legally dead. The message sends her to Evidence Zero...

What Happened In Apartment Five A? Praia da Luz is a small Algarve resort built around low-rise apartments, whitewashed villas and roads leading down towards the Atlantic. In early May two thousand and seven, it is busy enough to feel like a holiday destination but quiet enough for families to settle into routines quickly. Among them are Kate and Gerry McCann and their three young children, stayin...

The House, The Camera And The Missing Hours In September two thousand and six, a house on Whispering Cliffs Drive outside Pocatello, Idaho, offers Cassie Jo Stoddart something ordinary: a weekend responsibility. The sixteen-year-old is staying there while relatives are away, looking after the property and pets. There is nothing inherently remarkable about the arrangement. It is the kind of favour...

What Happened In Frederick, Colorado? At around lunchtime on Monday, August 13, 2018, a house on Saratoga Trail in Frederick, Colorado, begins to attract attention for an ordinary reason: somebody who should be answering her phone is not answering it. Shanann Watts has recently returned from a work trip. She has an appointment that morning. Her friend Nickole Atkinson expects to hear from her. Ins...

What Happened In Moscow, Idaho? On a cold Saturday night in Moscow, Idaho, the streets around the University of Idaho are filled with the ordinary rhythms of a college weekend. Students move between bars, fraternity houses, restaurants and rented homes. At 1122 King Road, a six-bedroom house close to campus, several friends are following separate plans before gradually making their way back for th...

The Balcony, Curaçao And The Missing Hours On the balcony of a cruise-ship cabin, a young woman rests in a chair while the Caribbean night gives way to morning. Beyond the railings is open water. Ahead is Curaçao. Inside the cabin, her family is sleeping after another night of a holiday that has so far looked much like thousands of others. Amy Lynn Bradley is twenty-three years old. She is travell...

What Really Happened On Rettendon’s Snow-Covered Farm Track? A metallic-blue Range Rover leaves the ordinary roads of Essex and turns towards farmland. The winter evening is cold, the track is isolated and the surrounding fields offer little shelter from the darkness. Snow lies across parts of the ground, softening the landscape but preserving the sense that any vehicle entering this place has don...

The Missed Safeguarding Warnings The water was still running inside the en-suite room at Bluebell House. Staff had first noticed a problem with the building’s water pressure and looked for a burst pipe. Then, on the morning of 19 May 2022, they went to check on the sixteen-year-old girl whose future had seemed unusually vivid only hours earlier. The previous day, Rhianan Rudd had sat an English GC...

How A Suspect Became A Star On the morning of 11 May 2020, the most important space in Ban Kok Kok was not the forest or the mountain. It was the small area outside a family home where three-year-old Orawan Wongsricha, known throughout Thailand as Nong Chompoo, had been playing near her older sister. At some point within an ordinary stretch of morning, that space became empty. There was no witness...

How The Alleged Plot Unfolded A discarded tyre on a dark Jacksonville Beach road has become the central object in a case about routine, access and whether separate fragments can prove an alleged murder-for-hire agreement. The tyre sat across Sanctuary Boulevard, large enough to force a driver to stop but ordinary enough to invite him to move it. There was no warning sign, damaged vehicle or strand...

What Does Lying In Wait Mean In The Nick Reiner Case? The closed front door on South Chadbourne Avenue gave nothing away. On a Sunday afternoon in Brentwood, a scheduled appointment had gone unanswered, and the ordinary silence inside the Reiner family home had begun to feel wrong. The concern reached Romy Reiner, who lived nearby. She crossed the street and entered the house where she had grown u...

Follow The Money. A London Bank Account, A British Lord, And The Money Trail That Sweden Never Forgot The most important object in the Trustor affair was not a yacht, a champagne bottle or a passport. It was a bank account in London. On paper, it belonged to a respected Swedish investment company. In practice, it became the narrow doorway through which an extraordinary corporate transaction would...